hop
verb
[ hɒp ]
• (of a person) move by jumping on one foot.
• "he hopped along beside her"
Similar:
jump,
bound,
spring,
bounce,
skip,
jig,
trip,
flit,
leap,
prance,
caper,
dance,
frolic,
gambol,
• pass quickly from one place to another.
• "she hopped over the Atlantic for a bit of shopping"
hop
noun
• a hopping movement.
• "place the rabbit on the floor to have a hop around"
• an informal dance.
• "the society's regular fortnightly hop"
Similar:
dance,
social,
party,
jamboree,
gathering,
function,
disco,
bash,
bop,
shindig,
shindy,
do,
rave-up,
knees-up,
beanfeast,
beano,
bunfight,
Origin:
Old English hoppian, of Germanic origin; related to German dialect hopfen and German hopsen .
hop
noun
• a twining climbing plant native to north temperate regions, cultivated for the flowers borne by the female plant, which are used in brewing beer.
hop
verb
• flavour with hops.
• "a strong dark beer, heavily hopped"
• be stimulated or intoxicated by or as if by a narcotic drug.
• "most muggers were hopped up on coke or angel dust"
Origin:
late Middle English hoppe (in the sense ‘ripened hop cones for flavouring malt liquor’), from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch.
